YOU KNOW ME WELL, by Nina LaCour (and David Levithan)

Nina LaCour is the author of three critically acclaimed young adult novels published by Dutton Books: Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You. She is the co-founder of Write Teen, a
series of YA writing classes. Her novels have earned selections by the
Junior Library Guild, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and Chicago
Public Library’s Best of the Best Books and have appeared on many other
state and regional lists.

During Pride Week in San Francisco, Kate and Mark come together after
their respective original plans are derailed, and begin to navigate both
the week and the world. Their unexpected friendship deepens as they
travel through new experiences, tears and laughter, and a sudden burst
of media fame.

Among other praise, You Know Me Well is a Publishers Weekly Staff Pick for Best Summer Book of 2016, A Bustle Summer 2016 YA Summer Reading Guide Pick, and a Seventeen Magazine Best YA Book of 2016.

ORBITING JUPITER, BY GARY SCHMIDT

Published by Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin imprintPublished in October 2015Fiction, 192 pages

Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of Okay For Now, the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and the Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars. He is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in Hamline's low-residency MFAC program.

Jack, 12, is not thrilled when his parents take in a troubled 14-year-old boy. However, as he gets to know and care about Joseph, Jack becomes involved in his own determined search for his baby daughter.

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at 13, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets 12-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
This tender, heartbreaking novel is Gary D. Schmidt at his best.

Ask Me How I got HERE, by Christine Heppermann

Published by Greenwillow Books, a HarperCollins imprintPublication in May 2016Fiction, 240 pages

Christine Heppermann is the author of Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty, which received five starred reviews and was named to five best of the year lists in 2014, and Ask Me How I Got Here.

Over the course of a year, Addie falls in love, quits the track team, falls out of love, processes guilt and forgiveness, and gives herself permission to make the choices that seem best for her.

How do you define yourself? By your friends? Your family? Your boyfriend? Your grades? Your trophies? Your choices? By a single choice? From the author of the acclaimed Poisoned Apples comes a novel in verse about a young woman and the aftermath of a life-altering decision. Fans of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins will find the powerful questions, the difficult truths, and the inner strength that speak to them in Ask Me How I Got Here.

Once again, Christine Heppermann writes with an unflinching honesty and a deep sensitivity about the complexities of being a teenager, being a woman. Her free verse poems are moving, provocative, and often full of wry humor and a sharp wit.